While the water in our house comes from the city, we do have two back up systems for water. The primary back up is a well on our property that can be pumped by hand or through an electric pump. The previous owner of the farm has installed a pipe system that transports well water […]

Ayla is going on vacation over Easter. We’re going to Locarno, Switzerland, to do some climbing, enjoy a bit of Italian atmosphere and hopefully some beautiful weather, too. We’re staying in a two-room apartment in the middle of the city which we stayed at last year. But we didn’t have Ayla yet so this will […]

Well, we received the new Spring 2007 LL Bean catalog and I have to say that once again I am fearful that we’ll need to buy one of everything from it. Well ok, maybe not one of EVERYTHING… but there are lots of very nice things that would make our camping outings just a bit […]

It seems that the slugs are retreating. Over the last few days there haven’t been as many slugs in the beer traps and all the other ones we find seem to be dead. We deduct from this, that our triple play strategy is working out for us. Beer traps, jars of cornmeal and hand picking […]

Since the garden is progressing quite nicely and we believe we will have everything ready for planting outside in the beds as well as in the greenhouse relatively soon, we decided to start a few seeds today to get our first batch of homegrown veggies. We’ve had to put them on the window ledge in […]